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1959 is one of the greatest years ever for jazz albums but for “Invisible Man’ novelist Ralph Ellison the Golden Age at Minton’s in Harlem was already long gone.

Dan Habib on parenting - and advocating - for people with disabilities in Concord Published: 7/30/2021 5:03:24 PM On Capitol Close Up on WKXL, former Concord Congressman Paul Hodes interviewed Dan Habib, the creator of award-winning documentary films on disabilities that have been nominated for multiple Emmy awards, translated into 17 languages, and used worldwide to support disability rights. Dans son Samuel has a serious disability and lives in a wheelchair. So what has it been like parentin...

The Atlantic How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own This article was published online on April 20, 2021. Of the many images that lingered after the January inauguration of President Joe Biden—the twinkling hand gestures of the poet Amanda Gorman, the rakish eyebrow-waggling of the second daughter, Ella Emhoff—one of the more subtly significant was the scene of Doug Emhoff trying to figure out which side of his wife, Vice President Kamala ...

Another exhibit for the jury would be the 2015 album Philadelphia Beat, featuring Heaths trio with Ethan Iverson on piano and Ben Street on bass. It opens with a version of "Bags Groove" — the Milt Jackson tune that Tootie surely played with older bro Percy Heath during his time in the Modern Jazz Quartet. Listen for how he states the initial pulse on finger cymbals, already swinging. Terri Lyne Carrington, "Giggles" Drummer, composer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has received no sho...

W. Royal Stokes has lived a jazz life as unpredictable as the music Chris Richards, The Washington Post Feb. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Jazz critic W. Royal Stokes at a 2005 book reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D..C.Erika HartmannShow MoreShow Less 2of5"The Essential W. Royal Stokes Jazz, Blues and Beyond Reader" is out now.W. Royal StokesShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5W. Royal Stokes. a champion of women in jazz, wrote several profiles of female perfor...

A new anthology compiles decades of music writing from the 90-year-old jazz critic.

George Shultz’ counsel is vital for America today—invest heavily in strengthening U.S. diplomacy and its diplomats to rebuild America’s role in the world.

AFP Reporters who covered Secretary of State George P. Shultz liked to refer to him as “Buddha” because of his calm demeanor in the face of world crises. Shultz, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 100, was perhaps best known for working with President Ronald Reagan to help end the Cold War. It’s not easy to sum up the career of a statesman who served for six and a half years as Secretary of State during a time of turmoil overseas. His was the longest tenure since that served b...

Toggle open close   John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home. Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for m...

How George Shultz Escaped Two Scandal-Plagued Administrations Unscathed As other top aides crumbled around him, he managed to survive the Nixon and Reagan White Houses with his reputation intact. Photo by The Nixon Foundation By DAVID GREENBERG Link Copied David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers, is a contributing editor at Politico Magazine . As a young journalist, a friend of mine scored a fellowship at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University...